Just the links
A cheeky little frolick around the internet.Dec 2022
- Even the 4chan edgelords think Elon Musk is cringe • Elon is what you get when you give a sad uncle too much money
Nov 2022
- Apple’s green message bubbles have an actual problem • It’s not easy being ‘#65C466’
- Brad Esposito: ‘The sooner you start laughing the less it hurts’ • Ha-ha-ha oh-oh-oh he-he-ha
- How a mining company is using fake Twitter accounts to defend itself • Welcome to the coalface of astroturfing
- Japanese artists manipulate the Chinese government to great success • Turns out the best way to stop pirates is to mock the CCP
Jul 2022
- A quabble of tweets, and other collective nouns for the web • Share your parade of RSS feeds with me please
- Alexa can fart (and may be experiencing severe gastric distress) • Who needs a dog when you have an Echo?
Nov 2021
- Cryptocurrency is now forbidden under Islamic law in Indonesia (and some fair points were made) • Cryptobros all over were heard crying fatwah-wah-wah.
- Wikipedia is as contentious as you’d expect when it comes to China • China v Democracy, round 638
- Roblox went down, parents freaked out • Society crumbled.
Aug 2021
- The Taliban has seized US biometric and face recognition tech • Does it recognise shocked faces?
Jun 2021
- “Music Is About to Change Forever” • Spoiler – it didn't.
Apr 2021
- Google could do more to prevent men killing women •
- No, Bitcoin doesn’t incentivise renewable energy •
- What kind of world is Amazon selling? •
- Zhush up your computing life with Hannah Montana Linux •
- For whom the Mac bell tolls, it tolls for thee •
- The “Amazon of South Korea” is worth billions, facing accusations of employees being worked to death •
Feb 2021
- Human society is just collateral damage in climate change •
- The changing face of uwu •
- The oldest image on the internet (with a link that still works) •
- I’m Being Censored, and You Can Read, Hear, and See Me Talk About It in the News, on the Radio, and on TV •
Jan 2021
Dec 2020
- Austin Mann’s stunning iPhone 12 Pro review •
- Ad tech, content, and the next internet bubble •
- NYT: The Tangled Web We Weave review •
- The conspiracy theory classification model •
- Surprise: it’s worth taking a break from social media •
Sep 2020
- “There’s no launch party for decay.” •
- “Doomer trad wife” and reactionary culture •
- The only good answer is “Yes” •
- Political leaders are sabotaging renewable energy •
- Microsoft’s console names make yet another good feature confusing •
- The world could use a little bit of tact right now •
- We don’t want everyone to understand us all the time •
- “There’s nothing novel about Netflix’s competitive culture of fear” •
Aug 2020
Jul 2020
- The public helped fund great tech – what should they get in return? •
- Why time is weird in lockdown •
- China has been playing the long game. The US, not so much •
- TikTok, Douyin, and the “dystopian censorship machine” •
- Facebook’s civil rights failure •
- Memeing law into existence: San Fran introduces the CAREN Act •
- What would it mean if Facebook and Google left Hong Kong? •
- Concern over TikTok is “international politics thinly veiled as a data ethics issue” •
- “Scream inside your heart”: advice for rollercoasters (and everyday life) •
- iOS 14's widgets bring the Windows Phone dream back to life •
- Spaniards can't stop ruining important artworks •
- Women share stories of sexual assault in the world of video game streaming •
- The picture 12 billion years in the making •
- The WNBA is back •
- Minneapolis lawmakers: ‘Our commitment is to end policing as we know it’ •
- Amy McQuire: ‘There cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators’ •
- The mine that ate up a town •
- Pakistan is managing COVID-19 with mass surveillance •
- Cities aren’t ‘facing protests’ – they’re taking part in them •
- An actual politician: ‘brumby lives matter’ •
- ‘They’re not moving. They’re not moving. Oh they got shot.’ •
- The man teaching cops to kill •
- Lao lao, Laos's very own moonshine •
- Gregg Popovich: ‘The System Has to Change’ •
- “The guy is drunk! But there he goes!” •
- LeBron James had no regard for human life twelve years ago •
- Bookwork Adventures is gone and there no words •
- Improv comedians are suffering because of COVID-19 •
- John Gruber on the state of iPhone and Android CPU Performance •
- A guy tried to buy nudes with Animal Crossing money (in a Facebook group his fiancé was also in) •
- Mastering tech as an expression of power •
Apr 2020
- Facebook has chosen growth over safety too many times •
- "No Solutions: A Personal Examination Of Online Anger" •
Feb 2020
- Sending confetti is the superior way to text •
- Netflix softens their viewership metrics, which doesn't seem insecure at all •
- Nepal introduces jail terms for "offensive" social posts •
- The lives lost due to Kashmir's internet blackout •
- The environmental destruction of the Australian bushfires •
- The governments turning off the internet •
- Bird mimics fire engine sirens as Australia burns •
- Machine learning and the art of under-paying people to fix your problems •
Dec 2019
- The art of dying •
- Who goes Nazi? •
- No-one cares about the cool bands you like •
- Muzak for tech bros •
- The death of local media and close-to-home accountability •
- Stratechery on privacy fundamentalism •
- The Cook Doctrine comes for your iPhone battery •
- Your wearable might be prejudiced •
Jul 2019
- Craigslists' founder is committed to helping the newspaper industry •
- How a trade dispute in Asia could affect Apple •
- Jeremy Renner has an official app (and a song) •
- Everyone owns your face •
- How to regulate the internet •
- Microsoft champions progressive values while donating to Republicans •
- Netflix isn't a storytelling company •
- Jony Ive and the Apple Watch compromise •